“All nuclear-weapon states are increasing or updating their arsenals,” the researcher says.
Nuclear the number in the world is likely to increase in the coming years, estimates the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri). So far, the number has fallen since the end of the Cold War, more than 30 years. Sipr’s report was reported by AFP and Reuters, among others.
The assessment is partly explained by Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which has tightened the boundaries between the great powers. President of Russia Vladimir Putin has also made more or less veiled threats to resort to nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons were used in wars only in 1945, when the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
“Progress on disarmament will be difficult to achieve in the coming years. The reasons are this war and the way Putin talks about his nuclear weapons, ”AFP said Matt Kordaone of the authors of the Sipri report.
According to Sipr, the number of nuclear warheads in the world fell from 13,080 in January last year to 12,705 in January this year.
By the end of the Cold War in 1986, there were more than 70,000 nuclear warheads.
Today nuclear power is known to exist in nine countries: Russia (5,977), the United States (5,428), China (350), France (290), the United Kingdom (225), Pakistan (165), India (160), Israel (90) and the North. In Korea (20), in the order of the quantities estimated by Cyprus. Israel is the only one of these that does not officially admit to owning nuclear weapons.
“All nuclear-weapon states are increasing or upgrading their arsenals, and most of them are tightening their nuclear rhetoric and the role of nuclear weapons in their military strategies,” Sipri Director of the WMD Program Wilfred Wan said Reuters.
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